PARLIAMENTARY ITEMS.

Globe, Volume XXI, Issue 1703, 5 August 1879, Page 3

PARLIAMENTARY ITEMS.

PBES3 ” CORRESPONDENTS.] ES WELLINGTON, August 4. The “ Post” states that it is currently reported that his Excellency the Governor and the Premier had a alight misunderstanding on Saturday. The 41 Man in the Street” says the Premier went to Government House and protested to his Excellency against the action of the House in refusing to consider the Electoral, Hepresentativo and Chinese Immigration Bills. It is alleged that his Excellency, having listened attentively to all tho Premier had to say, replied that tho House had acted rightly, and that he never intended that such Bills as those referred to by the Premier should bo considered. He also pointed out that he had only granted the dissolution naked for by the Premier on the distinct understanding that no “contested motions” should bo brought forward, and he certainly considered that these Bills would come under the heading “ contested motions.” It is said that the Governor has now intimated his opinion that Sir G. Grey’s action in the matt r was something very like a breach of faith, and rumour has it that some warm words ensued, the Premier ultimately being requested to retire. It is reported that large numbers of both parties are endeavoring to persuade Sir George Grey to advise his Excellency to send for some 'independent member, say Mr Whitaker or Mr Montgomery, to form a temporary Ministry, in order that the great measures of policy introduced in tho Government programme may be passed into law before tho dissolution takes place. The majority of members of the House being anxious to come to a dissolution by the end of '•the present week, have decided not to talk any more, but to pass nil necessary measures without discussion. The Liberal Association committee met this afternoon, and decided that public meetings should take place on Tuesday week, 12tb inst., also that tho mode of organisation to be proposed should be as follows :—A committee of twenty-five in each of the four wards, each committee to have a chairman, vice chairman, and secretary, those three from each committee together with the president of tho association ■forming the central committee. The House met at 2.30, but adjsurned again at 5.20, the Government having nothing ready to lay before the House. Sir George Grey promised a financial statement on Wednesday, so there is practically nothing to do until then, and then there will probably be some farther reason given for delay. The masters of the situation have decided that they will vote three months’ supply from Ist of July, and it is understood that the Government will try hard to get four months, but the majority will take every precaution to ensure the new Parliament meeting by the middle of September. There is no doubt Sir George will do all ha can to prevent that, hoping that shearing and harvest may leave him master of the situation ; for, however disagreeable sueh a position would be to a man of a different stamp. Sir George would enjoy it all tho more if obtained by a little sharp practice. The House, however, is not in a humor to be trifled with long, and if they see much more of a course so evidently at variance with the Governor’s condition of appealing to the country with the least possible delay, they will pass a resolution re•queating the Governor to remove his present advisers, which would bring Ministers’ career to an abrupt termination. The Canterbury members would be j notified 1 ■in almost any course that would prevent a ' general election without a redistribution of seats, which may possibly keep Canterbury for the next five years without anything like its duo power in the House. 1